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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Hot Topics in Health Equity.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? Rudd, Christina F. 1 (January 4, 2022): 33–34.

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

The Roberts family, still facing various charges of overstaying on federal land, remains homeless—they’re currently living in a hotel room, and have launched a campaign to pay for Brooks’s medical expenses. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” It’s bad for the homeless people it impacts.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Sometimes, nonprofits advance economic justice; sometimes, they are part of the problem.